THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

  • NBC's Olympics ratings are sliding and there's talk this could be the lowest-rated Olympics ever. 
  • Even though it's winter, Campbell's says that their soup sales are down 7%. 
  • Just so you can put it on your calendar, World Naked Gardening Day is May 6th. 
  • Adam Rippon accepted... then, turned down an offer of becoming an NBC correspondent for the remainder of the Olympic games in Pyeong Chang, South Korea. 
  • A report says that road trip vacations in the U.S. are on the increase. 
  • Alaska Airlines offered free wine to its passengers on Sunday, because it was National Drink Wine Day. 
  • Apple has passed Wells Fargo as the top holding of Warren Buffett. 
  • Really? A drug doping scandal in the sport of Curling? A Russian athlete tested positive for a high dose of meldonium, the same medication that Maria Sharapova was suspended for using. 
  • Bubba Wallace became the first black driver in the Daytona 500 since 1969, finishing second in the race held Sunday. 
  • 36-year-old Roger Federer has become the oldest man to be ranked number one in tennis. 
  • Winn-Dixie and Tops supermarkets are said to be preparing to file for bankruptcy. 
  • Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have invited the Obamas to their wedding but NOT President and Melania Trump. 
  • On a Transavia Airlines flight last week from Dubai to Amsterdam, the pilot had to make an emergency stop in Vienna when one of the passengers refused to quit farting. 
  • Black Panther set all kinds of records over the weekend, pulling in hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office. 
  • Some are calling Fergie's singing of the National Anthem on Sunday at the NBA All-Star game "the worst ever." 

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